Mormeg sometimes likes to paint a miniature or few miniatures in colours of legions or chapters different then his usual matters. Today I'd like to show one of such miniatures, tactical space marine of Raven Guard. If I'm not mistaken, this is a miniature built from parts of standard marine and the ones found in Raven Guard Space Marines Upgrade Pack by Forge World.

Amongst creatures shown in Night Horrors range were miniatures of dubious 'artistic' quality - I think this is the result of both lengthy release period and a work of many various sculptors. The one miniature shown today is, in my opinion, one of such inferior designs. It was released in a first batch of C18 range in mid eighties and was described as 'wraith with scythe',

This particular miniature is quite interesting though - this is one of the very few undead ethereal creatures in Citadel's catalogue showin without actual body - there are no hands holding the scythe, there is no skull or face hidden behind the hood - instead the sculptor made there two small points serving as "eyes". To be honest, I'would have a problem finding something similar amongst other GW's releases.

Pack of Night Lords' Raptors belonging to my brother Mormeg has grown yet again. Further metal old miniature strengthtened warband of former warriors of VIII Legion. Painting was described in detail in one of the earlier notes showing raptors, you can read about it here.

I always thought that 25mm round base used for years for Space Marines was large enough, with the exception of Assault Marines and Raptors. Personally, nowadays I would use larger, modern 32mm bases, as models look better on them and are more stable. Still, rebasing already painted models is major PITA... But handling this raptor made me wonder how unstable it will be on some gaming table features, having centre of the mass placed so high.

It seems that coming up with a original note's title on ghosts, wights and wraiths is bigger and bigger problem for me - and I still have lots of such miniatures on my painting desk. Let's hope I will be able to overcome this serious obstacle;)

Today's wraith is a third miniature from a range of wraiths released back in 1993, which were produced for 4th edition of WFB. These miniatures were sculpted by Gary Morley - as most, if not all Undeads from released then. I think that they are the best Morley's Undeads - by a long shot.

They have just one little drawback - very similar, stiff poses. It was necessary in order to rank them up in the unit, of course, still I think that it was possible to sculpt them in a little more dynamic way.